I grew up and became an award-winning humanitarian thanks to the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and The Spirit of Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Award. I’m a Penn State University alumna (due to my mother’s sacrifices and college-bound programs such as the University of Pennsylvania’s Upward Bound Program). I’ve worked in the news sector (so I know all about sensationalism), and I am a former print and radio journalist, publicist, and lifelong learner. I’ve been on the Internet for 26 years. Many people I know label me as a ‘tech geek’ (and they may be correct), but most importantly, I’m a mother to an incredible young woman who inspired me to create ActivityHobby.com. Coincidentally, my mom bought me my first refurbished Apple Macintosh computer in 1994 (with a used dot matrix printer – lol, and I was excited!). I later became a student in a web development program in 2000, & it is where I found my love for all things ‘Internet’ – building my first website in the same year (& fun fact; I’ve been with Stamps.com for as long).

We live in a dismal world filled with despair and chaos. There is good news out there, but we rarely hear about it. Therefore the idea of ActivityHobby.com came to fruition. It has become a passion project that we feel needs to be released ASAP (though it has been four long years in the making – releasing full-scale in ’25), with the state of the world being the way it is. It was not my next project up to bat, but as a long-time sufferer of clinical depression (high functioning) and seeing all the sadness and gloom around us these days, I felt it needed to be the project to focus on this time.

I’m an empath, and I care about the well-being of people. I’ve been in therapy for over a decade, & I’ve never met a stranger. I would have been ashamed to admit this years ago, but it’s my truth (and probably many people’s ‘truths,’ so never be embarrassed), and it has made me the person I am today. I believe in solid integrity and good karma (because I know you reap what you sow. Therefore, I watch what I plant).